[Info-vax] Rendez-vous autour de VMS" of January 31 2023 report

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/18/2023 8:14 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <tsrrf3$5qhq$6 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
>> On 2/18/2023 6:17 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 14:30 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> And honestly I don't see Ada make the cut.
>>> I don't think that will be an issue, as the GNU compiler suite has
>>> that, and once it's been ported, that will be good enough.
>> But will GCC be ported to VMS (again)?
> 
> Not apparently necessary. AdaCore are working on their LLVM backend for
> GNAT <https://github.com/AdaCore/gnat-llvm>. Using this on VMS would
> require VMS to be using an up-to-date LLVM, but that's presumably on the
> agenda.

That would avoid the need for GCC.

But I don't expect ACT to reinstate VMS support.

So someone will need to take the GNAT LLVM stuff and
the VSI LLVM stuff and make it all work on VMS.

Maybe it will happen. Maybe not.

Do you know if the GNAT LLVM thingy will generated binaries
with dependencies on GPL'ed stuff without linking exception
like normal GNAT GPL?

Arne